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at 6.00 a m and supported by a story of an early
morning raid was not likely to do so. This can really
only be answered by those who know the routine of work
in the Hong Kong police.
INTERPRETATION AND POSSIBLE COURSES OF ACTION:
I have to say that, after weighing such evidence as has been made
available to me (and being much aware of its shortcomings) I feel
that, though this death presented several unusual features, sufficient
to actually arouse suspicion amongst impartial persons, I am of the
final opinion that MacLennan in fact shot himself to death with a
service revolver whilst alone in his own bedroom between 6.00 a m
and 7.00 a m on the 15th January 1980.
I believe that there are 5 questions which should be further
investigated and enquiries into at least 3 of these ought really
to put the matter beyond doubt. They are as follows:
i)
ii)
The question of entrance and exit, not from just
MacLennan's flat but specifically from the bedroom
ought to be ascertained absolutely. I note that
Mrs Elliott states that TV reporters were able at
onc time to obtain entrance and exit from the flat
with the door locked
important.
K
in my view that is not so
It was in the locked bedroom that MacLennan's
body was found and if it can be shown that no exit
could have been made from that bedroom, then there is
no other possibility than that MacLennan committed
suicide.
The question of MacLennan's homosexuality. I understand
that Dr Hugh Johnson, who is a London forensic pathologist of the highest repute, has expressed the view that there was evidence of chronic buggery on MacLennan's body,